cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/58764195

I was in the non-profit shop of a local charity. They accept donations of used computers then resell them to the public. The profit goes to charity. I asked for their oldest machine. It had an AMD chip from the 16h family. Thus, a spychip.

So their oldest machine was still too new for me. I asked why don’t you have anything older? They said the general public would not accept anything older, and so the shop also does not accept anything older. When machines are rejected, they go to a factory that destroys them and recovers the raw metals.

It’s sad to see that pre-spychip machines are being destroyed and that even 2nd-hand customers are being limited to anti-consumer spychip hardware.

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[–] 1 point 2 months ago (6 children)

not my comment.

Yes I know... It's how you responded to that

Are you just a chatbot that's prompted to be contrarian or something???

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago* (5 children)

    Nothing in my response to that post expresses or even implies an acceptance of TPMs.

    Are you just a chatbot that’s prompted to be contrarian or something???

    Your inability to simply directly quote what you are claiming is more characteristic of a chatbot. Why can’t you quote my words that lead you to believe I have endorsed TPMs?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (4 children)

    It's pretty clear I made the assumption TPMS would fall under your "spychip" categorization

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    You started with this false claim:

    which you won’t acknowledge are not black boxes across the board like you seem to be implying.

    The claim is false for two different reasons:

    1. I did not refuse to acknowledge that they are not black boxes.
    2. Some are black boxes, and some are not. It depends on the maker.

    Then despite your failure to directly quote what you think supports your claim, you contradict yourself by claiming a TPM /would/ satisfy my definition that covers closed-source code while simultaneously asserting that TPMs are not black boxes. You need to sort out your brain malfunction and get some consistency.

    It’s bizarre that you make this meaningless yet contradictory speculation in the first place, then attack the speculation because I made no claim about TPMs that you could attack.

    The TPM is hardware constitutes a spychip as far as I’m concerned to the extent that it’s closed-source. But some are not.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    You

    TPM is a different but similar problem.

    Also you

    The TPM is hardware constitutes a spychip as far as I’m concerned

    You are running out of tokens or something

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